Anju Makhija is a Sahitya Akademi, award-winning poet, playwright and translator. She has written four poetry collections incl. View from the Web and Pickling Season; co-translated Freedom & Fissures and Seeking the Beloved: the mystical verse of Shah Abdul Latif; co-edited three anthologies related to women, Indo-English theatre and young readers. Her collection of drama, Mumbai Traps: Collected Plays, is widely available. Her latest book is Changing, Unchanging: New and Selected Poems (1995-2023).

Anju has won several awards incl. The Sahitya Akademi English Translation Prize, The All India Poetry Competition, The BBC World Regional Poetry Prize and The Charles Wallace Trust Fellowship. She has been on the English Advisory Board of the Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, for 5 years and is the co-founder of Pondicherry/Auroville Poetry Festival.